Associate Consultant, Climate Resilience

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This Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for an Associate Consultant to support our company’s growing Resilience Services Practice and our Climate, Resilience and Sustainability team. This is a full-time position located in any of our offices in the United States.

This new technical position is for a team member that will support our analysis of climate and environmental data, use geospatial tools for the visualization of data, and conduct research to support the appropriate thresholds that define climate impacts on infrastructure and communities.  You will work with other experts from our Resilience Services Practice, including climate scientists, engineers, planners, economists, policy specialists, and risk modelers, and expand our organization to meet our growing portfolio of clients, for whom we identify their risk to climate-related hazards, including socio-economic impacts, and develop resilience strategies and plans to reduce these risks.

Your Impact

• Apply and develop technical workflows for analyzing environmental data, including downscaled climate model output, to assess current and future exposures, including researching appropriate climate stressor thresholds for climate impact assessments and examining environmental data for best-use purposes and appropriate applications.
• Provide quantitative analysis of exposure, vulnerability, risks, and resilience associated with long-term climate change considerations for a range of clients such as municipalities and infrastructure agencies.
• Prepare documentation that succinctly summarizes methodologies and results for technical and lay audiences.
• Participate on multiple projects, delivering on project commitments through effective coordination with internal colleagues, external resources and agencies, and consulting team partners.
• Contribute to a diverse team of experts working to advance the Resilience Services Practice through effective data-driven analysis and decision-making.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in meteorology, atmospheric science, civil and environmental engineering, environmental science, data science, or a related field.
• 1-3 years of experience working with tools and/or workflows for effective data visualization of environmental data, particularly atmospheric data.
• Experience routinely working on coding projects in Python, adapting scripts, notebooks, and programs written by colleagues, enhanced by a strong aptitude in standard programming practices.
• Proficiency with Python libraries used to process and store labeled arrays, such as NumPy, xarray, xclim, dask, and zarr.
• Familiar with geospatial processing tools (e.g., GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine)
• Proven capabilities for technical project delivery.
• Experience communicating orally and in writing technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences using data visualization and maps.
• Attention to detail; commitment and skills to identify and detect errors; commitment to thorough quality reviews and checks; and commitment to accuracy, correctness, and excellence.
• Ability to innovate on challenging topics to produce client-tailored products.
• Experience working both independently and on efforts requiring remote collaboration.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
• Ability to work schedules conducive to project-specific requirements that may extend beyond the typical workweek.
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project-specific requirements.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience working on climate data to inform hazard and impact analyses.
• Experience analyzing the impacts to assets, infrastructure, and communities caused by climate-related hazards.
• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) and parallel processing in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub) for managing code and collaborating on projects.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. 

Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $73,700 - $101,310

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $73,700 - $107,910

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.